Highlights
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the nation's oldest and most influential civil rights organization representing African-Americans. Its name, retained in accord with tradition, is one of the last surviving uses of the term "colored people." The NAACP is run nationally by a 64-member board of directors led by a chairman. The board elects one person as the president and chief executive officer for the organization. Departments within the NAACP govern its activities and oversee local chapters. Previously based in New York, the organization moved its headquarters to Baltimore in 1986. NAACP leaders announced their intention in 2006 to relocate to Washingt...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the nation's oldest and most influential civil rights organization representing African-Americans. Its name, retained in accord with tradition, is one of the last surviving uses of the term "colored people." The NAACP is run nationally by a 64-member board of directors led by a chairman. The board elects one person as the president and chief executive officer for the organization. Departments within the NAACP govern its activities and oversee local chapters. Previously based in New York, the organization moved its headquarters to Baltimore in 1986. NAACP leaders announced their intention in 2006 to relocate to Washington, D.C. A year later those plans were put on hold because of lackluster fundraising. During the 1990s, the NAACP struggled with financial problems, leading to the dismissal of two top officials -- the Rev. Benjamin Chavis as executive director and William Gibson as board chairman. Bruce S. Gordon became the group's president and chief executive officer in 2005 following the resignation of Kweisi Mfume, a former five-term Democratic Congressman from Maryland who had headed the organization for nine years. Gordon resigned in March 2007. Civil rights movement activist and former Georgia state representative Julian Bond remains as chairman.
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Museum planned for restored home where Little Rock Nine gathered during desegregation crisis
Associated Press WriterLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Every day before heading to Little Rock Central High School in the fall of 1957, nine black students gathered at Daisy and L.C. Bates's home to prepare for the angry mob they faced as they integrated the all-white school....Tags: Civil Rights, Minority Groups, AT&T Corp., Martin Luther King Jr., Monuments and Heritage Sites
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Hate Crimes On The Rise
Staff reporterAccording to the Virginia law enforcement agencies who report hate crimes to the FBI, in 2008 Virginia saw 263 such incidents. Sixty five percent of those crimes focused on a person's race. Fourteen percent were motivated by the victim's religiona nd 13...Tags: FBI, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Assault, Massacres, Museum Dioramas
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Anniversary celebration
The Howard County NAACP Youth Council will host a reception celebrating the 100th anniversary of the NAACP from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Dec. 7 at the Ridgelys Run Community Center, 8400 Mission Road in Jessup. Free event will recognize several Howard County...Tags: Ceremonies, Society
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Howard County Datebook
Today 'Twelfth Night' Marriotts Ridge High School presents Shakespeare's romantic comedy at 3 p.m. in the school's auditorium, 12100 Woodford Drive. For tickets and more information, call 410-313-5568 or e-mail Jeanne Jurney at jcjurney@verizon.net....Tags: Personal Data Collection, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Holidays, Hospitals and Clinics, Comedy (genre)
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Walt Disney -- prince or toad?
Even before it opens later this week, Disney's new animated feature, "The Princess and the Frog," is already considered something of a cultural and animation landmark. After centering cartoons on a Middle Easterner ("Aladdin"), a Native American ("...Tags: Pocahontas, Colleges and Universities, Howard University, Interreligious Dialogue, Celebrity
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Nothing controversial in Rev. Wright's remarks
President Barack Obama's former pastor, whose fiery sermons ignited controversy during the election campaign last year, told a local NAACP chapter Friday night to remember the past while continuing to work for change. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright avoided any...Tags: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, Minority Groups, National Government, ABC
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Black lawmakers face unexpected challenges now that they have seized unprecedented power
AP National WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — Ten months after Democrats took over the Capitol and the first African-American president moved into the White House, black lawmakers are in control of some of the most powerful positions in Congress — and face new challenges...Tags: Civil Rights, Barack Obama, Local Authority, John Jr Conyers, Laws
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Minority parents join schools talk
Pahokee Commissioner Allie Biggs at the start of Tuesday's Palm Beach County School Board meeting led 14 elderly residents off a bus into an auditorium where the battle over the school district's academic reforms took center stage.
Hundreds of minority...Tags: Academic Progress, Art Johnson, Palm Beach County School Board
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Are some local students being excluded from gifted education programs?
Staff reporterIt's a school lesson State leaders learn for the first time. Minority students are poorly represented when it come to gifted programs. "Some preliminary data that we've seen both from the department of Education and the NAACP has indicated there's an...Tags: Timothy M. Kaine, Executive Branch, Government, CBS Corp., Teaching and Learning
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Md. city erects Dred Scott decision plaque to quell rancor over Supreme Court justice's statue
Associated Press WriterFREDERICK, Md. (AP) — More than 150 years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued the notorious Dred Scott decision affirming slavery, a Maryland city unveiled a plaque Tuesday to educate visitors about the opinion and the local man who wrote it —...Tags: Frederick Douglass, National Government, Local Authority, U.S. Supreme Court, Government
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Power and Light District Forms Dress Code Committee
Meagan Kelleher, FOX 4 Web ProducerThe Power and Light District was speaking out after black ministers protested there over the weekend. The debate is over Power and Light's dress code and whether it's racist. Power and Light District management said it still believes the dress code is...Tags: Dresses (clothing)
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Judge orders hiring plan for school district
ABC26 NewsA judge has ordered the Tangipahoa Parish School Board to increase its hiring of black educators for administrative positions. Under the order by U.S. District Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle, the Hammond-based public school district must hire qualified blacks...Tags: Employers, Judges, Employment
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